Paolo Angeli MD, PhD

Prof. Paolo Angeli is Full Professor of Internal Medicine. He is the head of Unit of Internal Medicine and Hepatology of the University of Padova (Italy). He leads a research group working on the pathophysiology and treatment of acute, chronic and acute on chronic liver failure and on liver transplantation. He is the present secretary of the International Club of Ascites. He is author of more than 220 papers on international journals with peer review, cited by JCR. He has contributed to the guidelines and/or positional papers on the management of ascites, bacterial infections and acute renal injury (AKI) in patients with cirrhosis for the European Association for the Study of the Liver. He has contributed to the new diagnostic criteria for AKI in patients with cirrhosis as a result of a consensus process with almost all the international experts in this field.